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Quotes by Musician
"Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country."
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"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."
69
"One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter."
69
"I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds."
69
"So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing."
69
"When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt."
69
"I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me."
68
"It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction."
68
"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."
68
"This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy."
68
"In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously."
68
"I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians."
68
"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping."
68
"People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being."
68
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."
68
"I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there."
67
"The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80."
67
"So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74."
67
"It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985."
67
"We didn't have money to put out everything we wanted to put out."
67
"Yes, but the great thing about all the people - and I don't think there is any exception - who I've worked with is they've all been very, very talented musicians."
67
"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."
67
"I love a visceral sound, the kind that hits you in the belly."
66
"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music."
66
"So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with."
66
"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
66
"I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got."
66
"They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel."
65
"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."
65
"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for."
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